Re: how to remove an empty line from a xml file??

I need to remove the empty line which is created due to deletion of data element in the xml file to achieve the ideal modified xml file. how can I do that? any suggestions?

The empty line is just another child XML::DOM::Node , no not an element, but XML::DOM::Text node, a child of $item, a sibling to $data,

So ->getChildNodes and ->removeChild as you require

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Re^2: how to remove an empty line from a xml file?? by ankit.tayal560 (Beadle) on Oct 01, 2016 at 08:34 UTC
understood your point! thanks but I am unable to implement it in my script. could you please provide me with a prototype or an example script for my problem ???	[reply]
Re^3: how to remove an empty line from a xml file?? by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 01, 2016 at 08:46 UTC
Much of Re^5: error : can't locate object method "getAttribute" via package XML::DOM::NodeList still applies, except now it's even code you've written yourself already, to remove a child node. Maybe add to that code more code to remove other child nodes.	[reply]
Re^4: how to remove an empty line from a xml file?? by ankit.tayal560 (Beadle) on Oct 01, 2016 at 09:08 UTC
hi corion, that empty line is another child of $Item element I understood that but it is a XML::DOM::TEXT element. I don't know how to remove text nodes? don't write any code for me (y) but could you please tell me how to do that `to remove a node I do : $parent_name=removeChild($node_name)but to remove text node what should I write in place of $node_name`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: how to remove an empty line from a xml file?? by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 01, 2016 at 09:13 UTC
Re^3: how to remove an empty line from a xml file?? by beech (Parson) on Oct 01, 2016 at 09:00 UTC
Hi, understood your point! thanks but I am unable to implement it in my script. could you please provide me with a prototype or an example script for my problem ??? Can I see what you tried?	[reply]
Re^4: how to remove an empty line from a xml file?? by ankit.tayal560 (Beadle) on Oct 01, 2016 at 09:29 UTC
hey was doing a silly mistake. tried the above code . it works! thanks for the help use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use XML::DOM; my $parser=new XML::DOM::Parser; my $doc=$parser->parsefile('C:\perl\perl_tests\xmlin2.xml') or die$!; my $root=$doc->getDocumentElement(); my @address=$root->getElementsByTagName("address"); foreach my $address(@address) { if($address->getAttribute("name") eq "Joey") { if(my $item=$address->getElementsByTagName("item")->item(0)) { if(my $data=$item->getElementsByTagName("data")->item(0)) { $item->removeChild($data); my @list=$item->getChildNodes; foreach my $list(@list) { if($list->getNodeType==TEXT_NODE) { $item->removeChild($list); } } } } } } $doc->setXMLDecl($doc->createXMLDecl('1.0','UTF-8')); $doc->printToFile("C:/perl/perl_tests/xmlin2.xml"); $doc->dispose; [download]	[reply] [d/l]